Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lambasting of their lairs across the Channel. British pilots stalked Germans home to spot their fields for future visits by British bombers. Wherever they saw barges-at Rotterdam, Boulogne, in the River Lys at Armentieres-they poured down bombs. They blasted out a section of the important Dortmund-Ems Canal, to which much traffic has been diverted since the railroad was wrecked...
...collapse of Britain and the loss of her fleet would plunge the U. S. into a defensive crisis. The U. S. Battle Fleet would have to go streaking for the Panama Canal and the Atlantic. The Pacific, to all intents, would have to be abandoned to Japan. And in the Atlantic Admiral Richardson might conceivably have to pit his great force against an armada of British, French, German and Italian ships, outnumbering him in tonnage more than...
...British Fleet would have to use U. S. bases from Portsmouth to Charleston, possibly on down to the Canal Zone...
Like the Isthmus Republics and Mexico, embroiled last week in its own election turbulence, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador lie directly within the U. S. orbit and on their friendliness depends the security of the canal...
Colombia. Though Colombia has not forgotten the rape of its northern province by Roosevelt I for the Panama Canal, its emotional antagonism to the U. S. has diminished with the notable rise of U. S. imports from Colombia, which has made the U. S. its best market for coffee, petroleum and bananas. At the head of its Havana delegation is Foreign Minister Luis López de Mesa...